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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

Questions to Consider on Robots and Jobs
Despite dismissive comments by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, facing the challenge posed by robotics replacing human labor raises key public policy questions

Kanth: A 400-Year Program of Modernist Thinking is Exploding
Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth in his new book

Debating Household Debt
INET grantee JW Mason has been engaged in an important debate with the Financial Times’ Matthew Klein over the relationship of household debt to income inequality
China’s Weapons of Trade War

Carbon Dividends: The Bipartisan Key to Climate Policy?
The practical question in Washington today is not whether regulations will go, but whether anything will replace them

At Sea Without an Anchor
A presentation from The Economics of Post-Factual Democracy, the first annual conference of The Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) at The University of Copenhagen
Trumping Capitalism?

Why Economists Should Think of Themselves as Plumbers
From physicists to engineers to meds to plumbers: thoughts on Esther Duflo’s ASSA 2017 lecture on rediscovering the last art of economics

Remembering Tony Atkinson as the Architect of Modern Public Economics
Beatrice Cherrier remembers Tony Atkinson’s influential intellectual, educational and institutional contribution to the field of public economics

A Socialist Market Economy With Chinese Contradictions
Beijing’s leaders face a critical dilemma over a credit boom that imperils China’s prospects for a smooth transition to a sustainable economic path

A Moral Challenge to Economists
Extract from the keynote speech by the Rev. Dr. William Barber III at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference on race and economics in Detroit on November 11

Contemplating the Age of Hyper-Uncertainty
In the 40th anniversary year of John Kenneth Galbraith’s Age of Uncertainty, the 1970s look remarkably stable in comparison with today’s turbulent world